Improved machine for mixing paint, soap, and other materials



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JOHN sr'AlNfr-.HORP AND IsAAo coLn; or NEW YORK, N.. Y., AssieNons TO JOHN STAINTHORP.

Letters Patent No. 102,330, dated April 26, 1870.

' IMPROYED MACHINE FOR MIXING PAINT, SOAP, AND OTHER MATERIALS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the. same We, JOHN STAINTHORP and IsAAc COLE, both of New York city, county of New York, and State of New York, haveinvented certain Improvements in Mixing- Machines for Mixing Soap, Paste, Paint, Mortar, &c., and any other liquid and solid substances, and the following is a specification thereof.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

This invention relates to a mixingmachine for mixing paint, soap, paste, Sec., of that class where one or more stirring-wheels, provided witlrany kind of blades, fangs, or dashers, are made tov revolve in a vertical .plane upon a horizontal shaft or arboulocated over the kettle, tank, or vessel, where the mixture is to be made; and

The improvement consists in causing the arbor or shaft aforesaid to assume a rotary or pivoted motion upon itself, and in a horizontal plane, whereby the mixing-wheels have a duplex movement, andl are' Description.

Ourdrawing represents one of our improved mixingl machines in vertical section through its cent-er.

A is a kettle, tank, or vessel of any kind and shape,

made for some purpose to approximatea half sphere,-

`whilst in others that of an oblong box, a cubic box, &c.

This vessel A-is stationary, and in our illustrationv is mounted upon the brick-work T.

V is a valve to draw oli` the contents of the kettle A/through the spout and'trough X.

Ir rr isa circular groove at the top of the stand of the kettle A, serving as a way for'anumber of small balls s s, 85o.

F is au annular frame, having on its under side a circular groove corresponding to the groove r r, so that when the frame F is laid upon the balls s s s it will turn freely in a horizontal plaire.

E E are four arms fastened to the frame F at bottom, and to the vertical arbor G at top, to communicate, with the aid of gearings H, movement to the said frame F.

' B is a horizontal shaft or arbor mounted upon suit able pillow-blocks b b, fastened upon the frame F.

f, gear-wheel, fast upon the shaft B, and cogging in the circular rack or rim of wheel g, which encircles the brick-work T, p

W, stirring-wheel, com posed of any numherof spokes and ri ins, with dashers, oars, fangs, or wings,"if required to suit the materials to be mixed in the machine.

\ This wheel W is fast upon the shaft B, and, when desired, extra wheels lV W2 may be placed to the right or to the left thereof, to suit the work to be done.

D hollow shaft, mounted and playing freelyupon the shaft B, used when it is desiredthat someof the stirring-wheels, as P, are to rcc'eive'a contrary or opis accomplished by the gearwheel fi.

All these details may be altered or the mechanical means entirely different; by example, the wheel P and lV might he worked from` the top and pivoted upon a forked hanging shaft instead of using the frame F, and yetthe result would be the same as regards their duplex motion.

posite motion to one of the wheels W W1 VW, which Operation. Whenpower is applied to revolve the frame F, the

shaft B is carrie-d along, and by pivoting upon the f centre of the machine will cause the stirring-wheels to have a sweeping movement in the kettle A, but the wheels f and f2 being cogged with the stationary wheel g, will, in turn, communicate a rotary motion, in a vertical direction, to the wheels W and l?, and from th e result of this mechanical.arrangement w`e have lthe duplex motion of the stirring-wheels, which we have found to be so excellent for a mixing-machine.

We do not claim the construction of'the machine illustrated, the shape of the' parts, vessel-wheels, &c.,

nor do we restrict ourselves to the exact speed im-l parted to the different wheels or to the frame F rela atively; but y W'hat we do claim as our invention is- The improved mixing-machine composed of a stationary vessel, A, in combination with -a stirriug-wheel, W, or stirring-wheels W- W1 VW P1, &c., having the duplex movement horizontal and vertical around the same center of motion, substantially in the manuel' and for the purpose herein set forth.

JOHN STAINTHORP. [n S. ISAAC COLE. [It s Witnesses JONA. BELL,

H. GENGEMBRE HUBERT. 

